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Originally Posted by swisstrains
It's yet another example of people taking the option which requires the least effort on their part and sod everyone else.
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On one occasion soon after Northern had installed ticket machines, someone was making an advance purchase 10 minutes before a train was due. The only ticket man kept doing it wrong and told the people queuing to buy your tickets off the conductor. When I boarded the train I had my change and railcard to hand but the conductor walked straight past me!
The man selling tickets in the ticket office should really have said to the person wanting an advance purchase to come back in 10 minutes, as there would then be about 35 minutes before the next train.
However, on other ocassions I've had to show my ticket to the same conductor more than once as he or she hadn't remembred me showing them a ticket.